In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

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.

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.