No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

The night is a strawberry.

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.