Are anybody's parents typical?.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety..

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument..

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a gr….

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony..

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband..

Art should communicate with as many people as possible..

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentrati….

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And e….

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument..

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist..

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

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them..

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The proble….

In my dreams, I never have an age..

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living….

Nothing important is completely explicable..

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of worki….

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks..

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?.