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

I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.