Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

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.

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

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.