My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.