If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

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

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.