“It is my mission in life,to convince you,that it is merely a thin linethat separatesa real lifefrom a fantastic one...”

“I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green lineconnecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all thecities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker andpins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green linethat could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”

“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”

“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly".”