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

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.