I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

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.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

If you think you can - you can!

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.