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

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

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

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.