Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.