“The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else.”

“Personally I think the only meaning your life will ever have is whatever your involvement means to someone else. The best strategy I think, if you want your life to mean something, try making someone else’s life meaningful. But if you want your life to mean something five billion years from now, it won’t –no matter what. Sorry. But what matters now still matters now.”

“…having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“You can have true affection for only a few things in your life, and by getting rid of material things, I make sure I won't waste mine on something that can't feel my affection.”

“There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.”

“Sometimes in life you have to do the hardest things to get somewhere—to change your life.”

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”

“I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life.”

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”