Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

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.

Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.

Struggle for Your Goals, because its too much better than Struggling for Your Life.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

The more I practise, the luckier I become

Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Don't count the days, make the days count.