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.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.