When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

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.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

Not all who wander are lost

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.