In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.