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.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

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.