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

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

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.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.