Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

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.

The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.

I love being not cool.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.