"Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!"

"I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone."

"As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!"

"We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to have these deep moral questions that don't come up in real life."

"Wisdom principle 19 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 40."

"I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew."

"Wisdom principle 32 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 82."

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."