I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

I do have trouble with titles.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.