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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.