If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

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.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.