I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
Life ain't the movies.
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
I think I lead a really real life.
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
There is such a difference between life and theory.
I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.
