[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.