There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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.

Some people will only "love u " as much as they can use u. their loyalty end's where the benefits stop

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

Why do the good die? That only happened once.

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.