You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

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.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

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

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

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

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