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.

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

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

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

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.