It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

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.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.