Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

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.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.