He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

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.

No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.