I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.