With destruction comes renovation.

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

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...

Connecticut is in my blood.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

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

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.