Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.

With destruction comes renovation.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.