An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can’t name a major publisher who didn’t reject it.
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Nothing important is completely explicable.
Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do. I’ve never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
But my memories are like a fire in winter – whenever I’m cold I can warm my hands at them. – Ditta.
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.