... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

The meaning of the story is the story.