The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?