The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.