"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."
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
"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."
"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."
"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."
"Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving."