Quotes About Paradox

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

If age brings either wisdom or answers to ancient questions, it has made an exception for me.

We're the friendliest enemies that ever were.

Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?

It was a crazy theory. But when Angels are involved, crazy is almost normal.

So if I'd finally succeeded, why did it hurt so much?

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

It really is ironic that the saddest I'd ever been was when I had 'achieved' all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.