Quotes About Paradox

Opposites attract because they are alike. They are alike in that they are opposites.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

In my mind, we live in Heaven, and we live in Hell.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.