A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.