It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but its suprising how often they head in your direction

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Take this treasure, Leave one of your own, And remember this truth:You are not alone.

I never give up on things.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.