If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

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

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.