If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

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.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.