Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.