I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.