"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible"which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
"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"
"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."
"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."
"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."
"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."