The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.