"If the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having." - P213
My desire to work—my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible—is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. - P214
But that’s only because of what I have chosen to trust, which is quite simply: love. Love over suffering, always. - P215
But that’s only because of what I have chosen to trust, which is quite simply: love. Love over suffering, always. - P216
Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too. That’s the deal. I trust it; it trusts me. - P219
The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. - P220
Martyr always ends up dead in a heap of broken glory, while Trickster trots off to enjoy another day. - P222
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