Quotes about Contrast

Back in Hollywood Hospital, there were no scrubs. The doctors were very well dressed, and the patients were in pajamas. The doctor in charge of the whole place wore baby-blue alligator shoes, drove a light blue '59 Cadillac convertible, and wore what I was sure was the button to end the world as a tie clip.

His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.

You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.

It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home

Be ugly, be God

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.

God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.

The opposite of bad is not good. The opposite of bad is love.

Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the one and rejoice and be inspired by the other. Or whether we will let one of them tempt us so far away from the other that we have a deeply distorted view.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.