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

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.