If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

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