Alfred Kinsey Quotes

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

People think I'm nuts.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

We are shaped by our conversations.

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.ʺ I appreciated the support.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally.

Most people are really nuts and that's fascinating to me.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'