We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.