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.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.