"I'd have to see those stories again to really be able to tell you what I think, but I think this: that if there is any doubt in your mind, which there seems to be, that you should wait..."

"I have been a victim of the common cold, which I think shared with my mother and so we have both been hacking and hooping for some time, me to such an extent that I think I broke my rib again, but now we appear to be on top of them..."

"...We are all fixed up with a portable television. The Sisters that I got their book published for them gave it to me. We like to look at the news but the rest of it is pretty awful..."

"...I am thinking I will write a short foreword to Wise Blood, no an interpretation or anything, just a kind of oblique thing about this kind of novel..."

"...It is bad not to be able to write when you want to. I know the feeling and sometimes I feel I have written myself out and its sheer drudgery..."

"...We are thinking about building a fall-out shelter. The only trouble is I don't know how we'd get 35 peacocks, the bull and several cows, and ourselves all in it..."

"I hope you hear favorably from Sister B..."

Forwarded letter from Sister Marie to Flannery O'Connor "...Dear Cecil, This came Today. Well aint [sic] I going to have a gay old time? I sure am sorry. F."

"Well I didn't get within five hundred yards of a telephone. The good Sisters seemed to have the idea that I was some kind of an invalid..."

"Cheers to you and Betty for the season..."