"I love the notion of brevity."

"In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free sp…"

"You don't stop loving your kids because they fuck up," he said. "You love them more."

"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching…"

"With you, intimacy colours my voice.even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'."

"You can't be wise and in love at the same time."

"People trifle with love. Now, I deny that love is a strong passion. Fear is the strong passion; it is with …"