There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your ….

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that the….

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on..

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different..

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of t….

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you..

I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger th….

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of o….

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it wo….

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself..

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning..

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them..

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them..

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose….

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music..

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin..

The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls….

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconven….

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves..

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind o….

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language..