Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.