I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I'd be able to understand the science behind them!

A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.