When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?