I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.