The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

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.

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

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.