When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Are anybody's parents typical?

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 was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.