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 the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

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.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.