If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

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.

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!

Neal! It's your grief counselors. We're here to hug!

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.