I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.