Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.