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.

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

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.

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.

Strategic execution always solves problems

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.

Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine