Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of 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.

Before one can know what is right and wrong, he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham)