Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.