She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

... 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.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.