Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.