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.

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.

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.

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Race doesn't make a man

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.