Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

In reading we must become creators.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.