It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

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 . . .

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

I've always gotten along with guys better.