Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

The meaning of the story is the story.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

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 only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.