I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

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.

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