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

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.