Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.