"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."

"I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues."

"I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do."

"I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single."

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."

"What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours."

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."