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

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.