In yourself right now is all the place you've got..

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..

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best selle….

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story….

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts..

A God you understood would be less than yourself..

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better..

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it..

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offe….

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it..

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul..

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say..

[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 s….

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage ….

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own..

Unadaptability is often a virtue..

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful..

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd..

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..