The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

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.

Life is INCONCLUSIVE but its about an everlasting FUTURE

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?

The only strange thing about Jackson was the tattoo on the inside of his forearm - a trident as dark as seared wood, with a single line underneath and the letters

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps when he says perhaps he means no when he says no he is no diplomat.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

How do we fight back? By creating art.