That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.