I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

I think age is just a stupid number.

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.