In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still

I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...

It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

Faith takes root in the insignificant.