I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

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.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.