Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

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

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.

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

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

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