Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.
You can start your day over anytime.
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
In essence, we’re their servants who help them and who guard them from the public. (Leo) Oh gee, golly, goodie, Mr. Leo! Can I have my eyes gouged out, too? (Susan)
To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.
Revenge is fruitless.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.