Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.