Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

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.

...един добър мъж е толкова силен, колкото е нужно на подходящата за него жена.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.