Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.
Even though she was used to Mrs. Whatsit's odd getup (and the very oddness of it was what made her seem so comforting), she realized with a fresh shock that it was not Mrs. Whatsit herself that she wa...
Death is the most ordinary thing in the world, and so is birth. Someone is being born at this very moment. Someone is dying. Ordinary, and yet completely extraordinary. The marvel of having my babies...
But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
As a child, when I came across a word I didn’t know, I didn’t stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant;...
Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
And perhaps if we ever have real equality with all our glorious differences, the language itself will make the appropriate changes. For language, like a story or a painting, is alive. Ultimately it wi...
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
A life form which can’t adapt doesn’t last very long.
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it...
Don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.
You’re good in school. Everybody likes you. For all the most unimportant reasons, Calvin said. There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level a...
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families. Richard said, There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thi...
You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.
You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.
Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers
When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.