Quotes About Perception

we do not need sight to see what you have become.

Certainly there'd been posters around for Sun Moon's movies, but they must not have seemed to apply to him. Now

what did it mean, then, when his story was nothing, just a suggestion of a life?

Where we are from," he said, "stories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

My wife is the most beautiful woman in her housing block. When I look into her eyes, I know exactly what she's thinking. I know what she's going to say before she says it. That's the definition of love, ask any old-timer." The

All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From

If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies...But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.

Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them.

I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Where we are from, he said, stories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change....But in America, people's stories change all the time. In America, it is the man who matters.

The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.

I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.

Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

Books are truer than movies.

I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.