A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way
I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.
It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.
I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that's a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, th...
I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospe...
Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains...
You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
The best way to wake up is with coffee and an erection. The cool part is one can stir the other.
