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

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.

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

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.