I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.