I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.