Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.