We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.