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.

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.

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.

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

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