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

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

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

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.