“Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.”

“If you're alive, you're creative.”

“What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?”

“We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.”

“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.”

“People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.”

“Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.”