1. “Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.”
2. “There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.”
3. “It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.”
4. “The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.”
5. “Once you figure out what’s best for the story, take out the rest.”
6. “You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories.”
7. “When you’re a kid it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.”
8. “The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.”
9. “Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.”
10. “I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it’s just me at my most desperate.”
11. “Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.”
12. “I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for writers.”
13. “I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.”
14. “If you’re gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.”
15. “Myth continues to be valuable way to understand parts of our nature we can’t quantify.”
