Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.