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

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.