I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

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

One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.