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

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.