Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.