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.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

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

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.