What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.