I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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.

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!

A relax soul is a sacred-being.

Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face.