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

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.

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.

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

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.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!