I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

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

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

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. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.