Quotes About Perspective

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.

Big data sets are never complete.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.

I've never been on a date.

I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.

Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them.

Everything I learned about women, I learned from the ages of 13-16. Every girl would talk to me about their problems, and none of them wanted to date me. So, I learned all of these things. So, when I finally got to the place where I could hit on girls, I just referenced back to all the things that I learned in high school.

I've not actually been on too many dates.

I've had a lot of dates, but I don't think there's been anyone that special or important.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

I think cheerleading is kind of dumb. I didn't admit to my daughter that I was a cheerleader until she was past the age when I thought she might want to do it.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.