The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.