Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Grace changes us and change is painful".
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.