People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.