The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

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.

Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.