Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.