She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

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

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.