He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

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.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow. And what you accept today, you could reject tomorrow. Never say never unless you can predict the future.

don't leave without living

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.