For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.