I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

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

In reading we must become creators.

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.