I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

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.

To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.

God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Gas prices - it is $6 a gallon here. People in L.A. are furious. You can't tell, of course, because of the Botox.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

There are many things that were harder to discuss back in the 80's and early 90's than they are now, and this also works the opposite way for other things.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.