Quotes About Wonder

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Maybe in another life, I wanna be Aaron Judge.

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

I used to like getting cups and putting tiny bits of food and liquids in them. I'd grow mould plumes in the dark wardrobe of my little back bedroom. Not to eat them, mind - just to admire the growing power.