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

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.