To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.