My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

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.

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 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.

People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.