I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

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.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

The first time he saw me, comatose with a head the size of 3 basketballs, he didn't even think it was me.

You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?”She had no answer.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

Nationalism is just racism with a flag.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.