Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.