I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

what you don't know, you don't miss

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God’s medicine is the answer to every need.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

I was never a critic.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

I always like summer best

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.