Theophilus London Quotes

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I take every possible side.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

I like characters who are contradictory.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

There are gray areas in everything.

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.

I am a Gemini. We have split personalities. While at work, I am fully in it. I can be attached yet very detached. I have no feelings of remorse.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

I think I fit into any type of system because I don't really have a certain position. Sometimes people try and label me, but I don't look at myself as being locked into one position.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!