It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.