Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing.