There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.