When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. 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.

Believing takes practice.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

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

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.