Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.
I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.
They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.
Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?
We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.
I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.
What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
somethings can only be seen in the shadows
There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.