I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.