“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”

“You know when we came out of the clinic, and we saw those flower beds that we hadn’t seen when we were walking in? That was so unexpected, I think it made me delirious somehow. And then it seemed like if we just threw off all restraints and talked wildly and ate wildly and shopped wildly, it would just turn up the delirium, and make it even better, or permanent somehow...”

“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”

“hey wats up?”

“When life is blank, just look up. God is still with you.”

“It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.”