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Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.