Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

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.

A few years ago I started an online flirtation with a high school flame, Andy. Things got weird and I called it off and two months later...Versace was dead...dead.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

A great large book is a great evil.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.