I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

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.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.