Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.