"In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back."

“Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“I write novels and other things.”

“Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.”

“I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.”

“I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.”

“My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.”

“It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

“Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.”

Source : Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282