Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.