Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.