[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

There is never only one, of anyone