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

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

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

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

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

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