When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

It's not really a question of who is biased, but which bias is the correct bias with which to be biased!

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.