The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Great lives never go out they go on.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.