One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

How very hard it is to be a Christian!

To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.