Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.