... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.