The reward for attention is always healing.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.