Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

News is history shot on the wing.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.