Bravery means doing something scary.

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!

You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!” “You’re impossible!” “Love you too!

Every thing has changed but my mind never.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.