There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

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

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.