It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.