The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

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.

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.