The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

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.