Ain't it the truth
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. cummings

creativity
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pierce

"The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world."
- Sidney Jourard

lemons
"When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"
-Henry Rollins

the trouble
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-Bertrand Russell

writing
"Don't write what you know. Write what you are willing to discover." Komunyakaa

perspective
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's
the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert Service

writing
What I learned at Columbia was that writing is as simple as showing up at your desk everyday. - alexandra styron

the Mac
And the most powerful and flexible tool yet created for translating dreams into reality is, in itself, a monument to human creativity.

The Macintosh.
- Andrew Gore, editor-in-chief, MacWorld

Define yourself.
..and if my eyes reveal a stanchion of conflicting rebellions I learned from you to define myself through your denials. -audre lorde

boldness
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -goethe

solitude
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.-henry david thoreau, walden, 1854

differences
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences. audre lorde

intuition & intellect
"Imagine I throw a spear in the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect." -Ingmar Bergman

monsters
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. For when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -nietzsche

truth
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. -stephen r. covey

writing
"I believe the writing of poetry distills ideas and feelings, and that the writer can then use that material to connect to a deeper, more authentic sense of life and self. time and again my work has shown me that whithin poetry, beyond its unique linguistic qualities, lies a healing power of enormous strength, beauty, and intensity. I believe that this healing effect is timeless and does not depend on prior experience with poetry; it thrives on spontaneity and nonjudgement." - john fox in Poets and Writers (may/june 2001)