I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.