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

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Art is communication.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.