Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure …

Learned [ones]

of the twentieth century, armed with large

finite numbers and radiotelescopes

Understanding is…

The earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.

The point is, if you don’t keep learning, then you might as well stop writing because you’re just stuck in the past somewhere. And you better keep learning your whole life.

Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them.

Don't surrender your loneliness

So quickly.

From an everyday standpoint, the fact that life is finite feels like a terrible insult…

We are running

running and

time is clocking us…

Attention is the rarest …

A story helps folks …

Talent is like electricity… Electricity makes no judgment.

Our concern for the future …

Some of my earliest memories are of World War II, at least World War II from the comfort and safety of my Midwestern home.

Before you know what kindness really is …

Writing is like a love affair

Once I began to read

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime ..

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams

I spend very little time looking back over my career as a children’s writer, a career that is stretching toward half a century now. I almost never reread the books I’ve published. I don’t even think about them much except as objects on my shelf that require dusting from time to time.