In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

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.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.