I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.