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.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

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

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.