Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

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)

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

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!

Ish #303 "It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.

Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.