It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Seeing is not always believing.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.