You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

In reading we must become creators.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

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 we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.