Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

We see the world through our experience.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.