If you love the work, it will love you back.

It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.