Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

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

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.