if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.