There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

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.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

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

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.