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

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

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.

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

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

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.

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.