The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

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.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

There is no better example for our children, then the one we set before them every day

Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

I am aware of the haters and bad rumors. I'd be lying if I say I don't care, but I try my best not to.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.