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.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow