I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.