Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.