Mitch albom

You have to work at creating your own culture.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Sentiment is wherever you go.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things...

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?