As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

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

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.