I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

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

The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

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

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

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