A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be d….

We do not love each other without changing each other..

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity..

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child..

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter..

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine..

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think abo….

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are n….

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated..

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?.

When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or ….

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..

It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all the….

To be born is to start the journey towards death..

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are..

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which a….

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone..

poets are born knowing the language of angels.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story..

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature..

It is the ability to choose which makes us human..