I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick..

I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor….

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high..

Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out — I just try to embrace the better ideas that come a….

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen..

Sometimes you just need to go through a door..

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them..

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was..

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, ….

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of beh….

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d be….

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time..

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked p….

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well..

Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder..

My portal to another world was fiction..

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book….

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores,….

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can fi….