Quotes About Clarity

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

I froze in time! And I thought, "My God... I'm free!"

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.