I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.