James Howe Quotes

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I am a deeply superficial person.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I never said I was consistent.

We are not always even what we are most.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

There's two heads to every coin.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.