There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

I am due at the page.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.