Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?