I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

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

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

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

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.