Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

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

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

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.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.