I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.