I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

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

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

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

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.