Mitch albom

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Love each other or die.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I...

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one...