I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

Life is all about conversion.

How you act on the worst time is make you the wise man of best time.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

Emotional troubles are like landfill. Get them outside, and the air disintegrates them.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.