Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

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.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.