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.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.