The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

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.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

waiting for the time to be free ...i ask every die forgeting sometimes soon i will be free for ever ... dont hurry the death.

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

If you want to hide it, paint it red.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.