Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

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.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Imagination's better half can sometimes tilt it's heavy head and wink, as if to say, "That's the way!"And I'd be off at a trot wherever it led.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

Catch someone doing something right.

When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.