There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

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.

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

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

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