"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."
"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."