Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

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.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

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

So much of being a woman is telling lies