Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

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.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?