You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.