All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

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.

When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?

When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.