Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

Morning always comes.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.