Richard Foreman Quotes

See into life, don't just look at it.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I'm here to make sense.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.