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

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

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

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

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

A woman is a blue sky with flying white clouds of emotions.

Saul was hunched over his drink like it was a small fire.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

God has just always put me in the right place I guess.