Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

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

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

In reading we must become creators.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth