Quotes About Wonder

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why.

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it.

I've always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

Sephora is fantastic. I go in there. I get lost. There are so many great things in there.

There's got to be something greater than us.

If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

You always have those moments of standing outside your own life and thinking, 'This is kind of bizarre and quite wonderful.' And I think those moments always catch you off guard.

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

You don't necessarily have to go to some exotic location halfway around the world. You can find that other world very close to where you live.

too many fantasy novels

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. —Psalm 139:14

He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles. —Job 5:9

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.