We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

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.