Quotes About Perspective

A pervert is anybody kinkier than you are

The dividing line between SM sex and "vanilla" sex can sometimes be arbitrary.

I want to be six years old again - just for a day. It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked. But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all. That's what I want. I want to laugh.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?" She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk." He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries?

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Living is a horizontal fall.

Art is science made clear.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.

Mi s-a p?rut c? am în?eles, înc? din acea perioad?, c? oamenii, evenimentele, istoria sunt întotdeauna ambigui ?i c? acordul spiritelor este arareori altceva decât o neîn?elegere binecuvântat? de zei.

M-am n?scut într-o lume cu privirile a?intite înapoi. Trecutul avea pentru ea mai mult? greutate decât prezentul.