For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
To be human is easy, to be a human being is difficult.
Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?
I love the surprise element of being a mom.
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence l...
It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound of diverse elements. Nevertheless, the Quran is life, not literature. Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking. ...
The element of harmony is super important.
Nothing is not the opposite of something; it is an element of everything.
Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun.
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many different ways. Yet the heart of an object or the essence of the heart can never be reflected. All faith and creativity is t...
Curious about these new entities, the elementals asked why the gods were in the shape they were. "We are bipedal," Erebus said. "We wish to be distinguished from the animals." "What are animals?" an elemental asked. "We're not sure yet, but they will...
The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had...
Operating in the interstices of communist China society was at once exhilarating and uncertain. There were no rules. Or rather, there was only one rule: that nothing is allowed. But the corollary, which reveals the true genius of China’s love of th...
I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of lif...
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
