There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

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

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth