What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.