"To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be."

-- Thomas Ligotti

#Humanity Quotes #Mind Quotes #Black Quotes

“You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.”
“When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.”
“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
“When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.”
“To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.”
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.”
“Isn't (life) all about trying?”
“I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.”

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