I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Chr... - Flannery O'Connor

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."

"You know,"Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!"

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."