I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.