All the women in my family were superb cooks.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

It symbolizes a spear, and in this sorry world the symbol is the thing.

The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.