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

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

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

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.