I always try to write about believable people.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

Things work out the way they're meant to