Quotes About Contrast

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

Nanda and I were very different individuals, quite the study in contrasts. But we were very close friends. Or maybe we were close friends because we were so different.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

Every side of a coin has another side.

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.