"By November 2024, we'd mostly outgrown our rowdier proclivities. A trip to coastal Basque Country would serve as an anniversary of sorts, celebrating my birth but also the completion of my first book."
"A lapidary is kind of like an encyclopedia of stones. They explain all sorts of what we would consider magical attributes of the stones, as well as straightforward information like its origin and physiology."
"It is a way of articulating thoughts that otherwise just brew. That can work evocatively in painting. But with words, you need to have order of a different kind."