I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

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.

Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people.

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.