It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

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

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

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

Give yourself time to get better.