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.

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.

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.

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.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

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