Quotes About Perspective

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.

there was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them; they ceased to be clouds at all. It just got really foggy.

Somos lo que caminamos entre dos puntos.

God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fair low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.

Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer.

bilateral illusion of unilateral attention

That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life? LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow. JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth? LENORE: I smell trap. JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE: I would kill for a shower.

I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

It'll help your attitude to look for evidence of design.

David Foster Wallace

just the thought of getting up made me glad I was lying on the floor.

David Foster Wallace

In this instance, he was wise enough to be suspicious of his own desire to seem wise, and to refuse to indulge in it….my father understood that advice - even wise advice - actually does nothing for the advisee, changes nothing inside, and can actually cause confusion when the advisee is made to feel the wide gap between the comparative simplicity of the advice and the totally muddled complications of his own situation and path.

She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.

other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.

It may well be that we, spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.

God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.