If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.