I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.