It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.