Quotes About Duality

Given a choice I want to do a yin and yang tattoo on the middle of my chest and right next to my heart.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

I saw someone on Twitter describe Pence as the yin to Trump's yang and there is a truth in that.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.

This is kind of a dual existence where you are harsh but at the same time emotional. You are there because you have experienced trauma.

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

The doctor part of me recognises the light and shade of medical life, but the writer in me is more attracted by the darkness, perhaps because it is the road less travelled.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

Everything that is, casts a shadow

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

You're your best friend and worst enemy.