[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

Life consists of books.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

When you're around people, act like you like them.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.