At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

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

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

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

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books