You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully