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

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.

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.

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

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

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".