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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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