It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

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

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.