Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.