A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

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

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.