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.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

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

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.