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.

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

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.