If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.