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.

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

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

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.