It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

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 combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

The soul of a murderer is blind

I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.