I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

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

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

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.