Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

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.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Things do not need especialities to become special, just understand them as special and they will be.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

If I loved you, well that's my fault

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.