Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.