I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis