“I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.”

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)”

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

“When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.”

“I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.”

“I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.”