far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

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 don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.