If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

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.

Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill his mission.

Divine punishment are also mercies.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.