“Equip yourself for your own needs.”

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

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

“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.”

“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.”

“Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.”

“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.”