It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.

The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah!

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.