Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

Sethian began, sounding thoughtful. “As I said, last night was more than a night of pleasure. When I brought you into my bed, you became my wife.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

Wherever there are birds, there is hope.

How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding.

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!