I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.