I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

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

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding