Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.

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