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

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

The meaning of the story is the story.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.