Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.