You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

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.

We are amazing individuals.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Good marketers tell a story.