Quotes About Depth

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

It can't just be about being sexy. It has to have all the emotions involved, I think, on the album and in the live show. Because if you do all sex, you lose all of the other beautiful things that should be a part of it... And just being sexy will get you nowhere.

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

I want to give my characters nuance.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

Most people, no matter how brilliant, are vessels. Once you come to the end of what is interesting in them, you can touch the side of the jar. There will be nothing afterward but repetition of what you have learned already. It might take a night, a year, or half a lifetime, but once you can reach the side of the vessel, a good part of the larger feeling is gone.

I heard her calling to me from caverns so deep in herself she was never aware of her own voice.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

don't you have this sense sometimes that our life is essentially just the tip of the iceberg, and if you stop clinging to your puny bit of ice in fear or out of habit and just dive into the water, you will discover this luminous mass going down, deep down, and meet creatures you can't even imagine, and have thoughts and feelings no one has ever had before . . .

O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.

HE ALWAYS KNEW THE LAYERED GRIEF OF THE WORDL AS ITS PLEASURES.

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep

we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region.

Cartile nu adauga nefericirii omenesti decat o anumita adancime, pe care noi o socotim a fi consolare.

C?rÈ›ile nu adaug? nefericirii omeneÈ™ti decât o anumit? adâncime, pe care noi o socotim a fi consolare.

PriveÈ™te-l în adâncul ochilor; are o inim? ca de copil, atât de curat?, atât de singuratic?!

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.