Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

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

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.