I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.