'Bookstores Are a Series of Potential Portals that You Can Dive Into'
"We don't really have video stores anymore, and so the closest I can get to feeling like I'm in church is wandering into an indie bookstore and getting lost in the aisles, checking the staff pick sections, and being surrounded by all of these little worlds. Bookstores are a series of potential portals that you can dive into. That style of dreaming was part of my childhood and so those spaces continue to feel very, very holy for me.
"Also there's the beauty of a physical object. I'd say 95% of what I read is in print. I don't read e-books or listen to audiobooks. I like to sit on the couch with a cup of tea and a paperback. It's crazy, it's a very simple medium--a book is just ink on blank pages with a cover--but knowing what went into making the ink form all those specific patterns on the page.... Humanity is in between the covers of any book."
