Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.