Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Love wins, love always wins.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.