Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

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

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.