I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

the value of a man increases only when he has a consistent relationship with God

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up, And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction.

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.