Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

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.