When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.