Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.