Kanye West Quotes

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

I am serious about not being serious.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Gentlemen, include me out.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.