If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

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

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.