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

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

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.

When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.