Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

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.

People are starving for truth and leadership.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.