I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

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.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.

Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.