In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

I write to discover what I know.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.