“But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?”

“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.”

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

“What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?”

“And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. ”

“That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.”

“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”