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.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?