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.

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

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

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

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.

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.