I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

If you don’t do anything today without power

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.