Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

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.

Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love, and never find the way back to where it was.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.