I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

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.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

Whoever I had become had to die.

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Know that America belongs to you, to all of you.

Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries