"The best art risks most deeply. It is intended not for a group of readers but for one. It descends into the subterranean, the shameful, the fraught, the urgent the covert. What cannot be said aloud because it defies conversation. What cannot be said aloud because it exists only as this constellation of scenes, this concatenation of details on the page, but passes invisibly over the earth because you have not yet pointed a finger at it. Write what you care about. Don't write one more word that you don't care about. Don't waste any more of your life on what does not matter to you." -- Bonnie L. Friedman

"Don't be afraid of failure. Failure is the only thing that teaches, success does not. ...you have to be fearless." -- Patti Lupone