Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.