To write for children at all is an act of faith.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

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.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.