there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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