I really wanted to talk about what the public's perceptions are and, for me, as a researcher, I felt compelled to collect data and measure it.

The good news is lawyers were seen as helpful to our society by 82 percent of the population.

I tell families frankly that I don't see (chelation) as benign and it's really very scary to me,

I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.