I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up