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

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.

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

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

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.

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

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.