Dan Savage Quotes

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Normal is all relative.

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.