I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

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.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.