It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

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.

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.