Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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