Quotes About Clarity

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

know Lee and Lisa. But you did.

He thought of getting out of bed but did not get out of bed. Why? What for? Everyone else seemed to know. Like there had been a meeting no one had told him about, where a secret was shared. Those who knew the secret did not wonder why they should get out of bed. He

Maybe the problem is that no one is telling the truth about it. Maybe if there were more facts and fewer agendas, none of this would be happening.

obfuscate or

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that. And neither should a good story. A good story ought to leave a little grey behind, I think.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it is too late.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I was just telling the truth, but people always seem to think you're stark, staring mad when you do that.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.