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

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.