I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.