You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

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.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.