As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.