If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

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

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.