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

Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

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

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.