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

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

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

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.

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.