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.

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.