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

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.

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

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.