Unadaptability is often a virtue.

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.

Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.