This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.