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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.