Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.