Quotes About Perspective

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I've gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there's always another perspective.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

People come, people go Some grow young, some grow cold I woke up in between A memory and a dream So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint Let's head on down the road There's somewhere I gotta go And you don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me

Say thank you, he thought. Say it and keep saying it until you believe it.

disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

At first I thought that my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it's actually a downward spiral.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

photographed dressed as an Arab sheikh, in robe and headdress. The photograph is preserved among his papers, pasted next to another picture in which he is in the same pose but dressed in a tailored suit and expensive tie. One is labeled "East" and the other "West.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

When you're young, you have way fewer taboo topics, and then as you go through life and you have experiences with people getting cancer and dying and all the things you would have made fun of, then you don't make fun of them anymore. So rebelliousness really is the province of young people—that kind of iconoclasm.

The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.

LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me . In New York it's fuck you .

I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.