You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

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 thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.