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.

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.

You want to attach emotionally.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

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."

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.