To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

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.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.