I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

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

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.