Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit..

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society w….

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex..

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure ran….

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme..

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tet….

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out..

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit..

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then….

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back..

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later..

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction..

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green l….

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never ….

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires.

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes..

I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but i….

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.

I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have b….

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to co….