John Bunyan Quotes

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

I am temperamentally drawn to work that shoves the strange and normal against one another, it's true, although I don't see the 'strange' and the 'normal' as being two separate categories of experience; for me, they are intertwined, hard to separate.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

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

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.