Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.
Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
California is one of the strongest states with one of the solidest economies but, at the same time, ignores the reality of its farm workers.
Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
