"If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys."
"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
"A book comes and says, 'Write me."
"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished."What I believe is alive ... and open to growth"
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."