If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.