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

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

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

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

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.