Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

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.