Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.