I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.