“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play”

“Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his...”

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise ”

“The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.”

“Because, as we all know, its easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And its also easier to do little things we know we can...”

“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”

“Sometimes its hard to know when youve crossed the line from conscientious to compulsive. When youre in the thick of an assignment, its easy to believe that you must spend so much time brainstorming...”

“Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.”