"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."
"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."