Quotes About Perspective

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.

I would encourage people to see through rather than look at their circumstances. If you see through your circumstances to the person you want to be, then your life and it's tragedies will have purpose. If you look at your circumstances, then you will despair and give up.

Normal people don't know how lucky—how blessed—they are.

You don't recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.

I hoped the writing would help me get things straight in my head, especially with regards to Kurda, but I was just as confused by the end as I'd been at the beginning. No matter how I looked at it, I couldn't help feeling that Kurda had been both a hero and a villain. Things would be simpler if he was one or the other, but I couldn't pigeonhole him. It was just too complicated.

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

When she had finished, he grimaced impatiently. "That's silly. Mamma's not really dangerous. She's just a case of arrested development. Most of us have outgrown ethics and morals and so on. Mamma's just not grown up to them yet.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

Remember that being offended is not the same thing as being right.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.

Almost half of the people over 40 believe they look younger than they are. This says something important about older Americans. We have terrible eyesight.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called The Venice of America by people who clearly have never been to Venice.

Some of my close friends could easily be deceased; this would not have a serious effect on our relationship.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.

As the poet Wordsworth once said, 'Fatherhood is truly the most...HEY! You kids put down those hatchets RIGHT NOW!' The poet Wordsworth's point was that, although fatherhood is a rewarding experience, it's an experience that you will sometimes wish was rewarding somebody else. Nevertheless, if you ask any dad if fatherhood is worth it, he will immediately answer yes. Why? Because his wife might be listening.

I realize I am generalizing here, but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.