I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

Art should be a place of hope.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.