Madeleine L'Engle

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

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

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.