But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...

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

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

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.