We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.