Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.