So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

Connecticut is in my blood.

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.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

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.

With destruction comes renovation.