Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.