We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

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?

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

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

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.