There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.