Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

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.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.