During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

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

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.