When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.