Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

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

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.