I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.