I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.