In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

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