I'm insatiably curious.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.