Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

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.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

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