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

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.