If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid. '
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the heroheroine of hisher own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.