Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combi….

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat..

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!.

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you..

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist..

I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for other….

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I ….

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it..

The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relation….

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil..

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends..

We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjecte….

These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that un….

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy..

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is su….

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I ….

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains..

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts ….

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty..

The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself.….

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist..