It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

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.

Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.

I'm proud to be a work in progress.

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.