I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

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

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

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

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.