But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

No holidays, no country.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

People know what I'm doing.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.