Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

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.

Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.