The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.