You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.