Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

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.