Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

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.

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.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.