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

The greatest griefs are silent.

I won't read novels while writing novels.

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

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.