Kyle Quotes

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.