My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.