Quotes About Paradox

A place like this should not exist in such a cruel world. To find it there was to have hope restored.

He felt a little like the keeper of an unpredictable wild beast, beautiful in its unchained splendour, purring and rubbing against him, but able to turn on him without warning.

How could someone be so familar, yet a complete stranger?

If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?

The only completely consistent people are dead.

It is an ironic paradox: being dependent makes us more independent.

I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.

They would swear that the United States was their number one enemy, and yet carrying a pack of Marlboro Lights seemed to be a sign of privilege and class.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so.

I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Solutions are not the answer.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.