Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

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

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.