The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. 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.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

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.