I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

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.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

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.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.