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

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

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

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.

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.