The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.