It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

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 wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

...90 Times to be viewed a work which is state: Progress sounds like a lot of to me... but please don't lie and say that you what I to continu, don't ya???

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.