Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

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

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.