I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

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

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.