You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.