I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

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.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

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