At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

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.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.

Your brain is all you are, Ms. Enslow, and there's nothing wrong with yours, whatever they might've tried to tell you.

What is your one-sentence job description?

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.