She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

[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.