She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.