The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.