People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.

Fashion sells education is sold.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Equations are the devil's sentences.