My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.