If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can count on one hand the people I could call and who would be there for me.
After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'
I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.
My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!