Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.