When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.