It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.