A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.