I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.