Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.