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

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

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.

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

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.