Quotes by category:Thinking

I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

country people thinking

Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.

brain love-is thinking

I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

sadness real thinking

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

feelings art thinking

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

opportunity school thinking

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced... by Alan Moore

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

premium world thinking

I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

past moving thinking

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

magic culture thinking

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

reality ideas thinking

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

men people thinking

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

brain writing thinking

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

responsibility roots thinking

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

occupy-movement failing thinking

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

writing art thinking

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

imagination ideas thinking

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

consciousness important thinking

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

order needs thinking

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the supe... by Alan Moore

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

superhero interesting thinking

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

vendetta moments thinking

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

events men thinking