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

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.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

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.