When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

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

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

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.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.