It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.