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.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

—Flannery O'Connor

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

—Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

—Flannery O'Connor

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

—Flannery O'Connor

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

—Booth Tarkington

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

—Ann Landers