If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

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.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

I've crashed my car three times.

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.