He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.