Quotes About Contrast

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Mong Kok is where old, traditional Hong Kong and the contemporary, future-leaning city collide like a speeding Lamborghini into a bus full of retirees on their way to a bingo parlor

Cannon, whose given name was Floyd Gruber, wore an elaborately embroidered Japanese silk kimono over his three-hundred-pound girth, and his crude oil black hair was tied into a tight man bun.

was how he imagined a rose garden would smell if somebody covered it with fertilizer, doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and then put out the flames with buckets of horse piss.

Eventually, he drove through a cleft between two rocky hills, what Ronnie called "Mother Nature's Glorious Cleavage," into a hidden clearing where a ramshackle compound had been built.

Realism and art cannot live together.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

I miss being a kid. I got food, clothing, and shelter for free. Grownups only get that in jail.

Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead

Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.

It may be difficult to believe, but, at any given moment, someone somewhere is in a dangerous situation and other people in some other place are dancing and having a good time. The world is often like this. A celebration here; terrible trouble just outside the door.

Por supuesto, todas las noches son días oscuros, por que la noche es simplemente una versión mal iluminada del día.

Without the dark, everything would be light, and you would never know if you needed a lightbulb.

Summer rain is cleaner than winter rain. Winter rain strikes hard upon the granite, but summer rain is sibilant soft upon the leaves.

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.

Seeing Blackpool on a dull winter's day rather spoilt my image of what seaside places were like. (From LONE WOLF, p.60)

People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline.

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.