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

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.