When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

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

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.