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.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.