Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

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.

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

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.