Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

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.

all nature is at war

So this gargoyle you're looking for, she could imagine herself saying. It wouldn't happen to have freaky magical powers, or the ability to devour human souls, would it?

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

He that marries late, marries ill.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.