Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

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

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

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

The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

In life, you often get what you expect.

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

You see, we didn't know.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

I'd like to see a slasher movie set in the depression.

You can't spell Citrus without UT

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.