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.

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

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 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.

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

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