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

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.