The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.