You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.