Quotes by Herbert James

“In Paranoid Park there is this Punk girl that keeps looking straight into The camera when she speaks, It’s like she’s speaking to us.””

“Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena.””

“He never walked away from a problem, but occasionally liked to bury it and dig it up later.””

“Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees,””

“The fact of the matter is, the more power you have, the easier it is to find solutions to any problems. You merely surround yourself with the right people, the right brains – they come up with the answers and you take the glory.””

“Sidney remembered how strikingly original the poem was. For George Herbert, the time we spend on earth is not all too brief and transient but too long: because it detains human beings from a life outside time and with God.””

“The photographer was lost for riposte, obvious though it should have been; instead he turned to run. At least his mind did. In fact, his mind had already scooted down the Broad Walk and was clambering over the railings at the end, whereas his body had remained rooted to the spot. With some effort he looked down at his feet as if to reprimand them. They refused to take notice.””

“There is a fake version of meAnd he's the one that writesThese poems.He has an attitude and swaggerThat I don't have.But on this page, this fake meIs the me that speaks.And this fake me is louderThan the real me, and heIs the one that everyone knows.He's become the real meBecause everyone treats meLike I'm the fake me.””

“But the point was it was the construction itself that had made a minor disaster into a major one. And the construction had been a cheaper means of building - a cheaper way of cramming thirty or forty families into the smallest square footage possible. That is what embittered Harris. The incompetence of 'authority'.””

“Still, that was the city, a great big filthy breeding-place for vermin – animal and human.””

“was man, mortal bloody man, who created the myths.””