"Cynicism induces a state of helplessness…It disables resistance to all these ills and reduces those who can see and n…"

"I love loneliness. I consider my history with loneliness to be among my great blessings…I hasten to add that it is de…"

"…People are complex — that’s the whole center of interest. I don’t make my characters complex. I have a feeling that …"

"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as…"

"Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in…"

"She said, "Meaninglessness would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. S…"

"This document explained my aunt Molly’s departure to my whole satisfaction. Even now I always imagine her leaning fro…"

"Such a net, such a harvesting, would put an end to all anomaly. If it swept the whole floor of heaven, it must, final…"

"Once, Lucille and I walked beside the train to the shore. There had been a freezing rain that glazed the snow with a …"

"I don’t really have an ideal reader in mind at all, whether one with or without faith. When I write it is to try to f…"