...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

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.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

There's more to life than cause and effect.

I don't know why they call them Cheerios, I ate an entire box and didn't feel any happier!!

Bernie Saunders is like a fly buzzing around a bowl of rotten fruit. Long hail this fly!

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.