"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
"The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)"
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."