I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

The meaning of the story is the story.

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

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.