Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.