The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.