It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.