life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.