I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

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

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.