Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.

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!

Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

I believe in life after death.