Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.