You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.