There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

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.

This is the sinking womanwhose soul touched the ocean andcaused it to storm kisses.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Music is life, and life is not a business.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.