Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.

Hi handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again creep again leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh what fun.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

I love everything about fashion. I even love the fittings and watching it evolve from a pattern to a muslin to the final product.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

The best things that have ever happened to me have not been the result of anything I have done. Some might say that is luck. I call them blessings and in some cases miracles.