I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

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.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.