Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.

It's easier to bleed than sweat

If you live today, you breathe in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkiest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man.

Kept rattling the ice in her glass, rattling her beads, rattling her bracelet like an impatient pony jingling its harness.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.

I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.