"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!"
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."
"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."