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.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

I write to discover what I know.

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.