You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.