The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.