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

We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?

Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

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

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

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.