You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

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.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

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