At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.
I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there was no depth to him, no preparation, that he was an agitator breathing a lot of fire and with an absolute lack of ideas.
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.
Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link. . . He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto. . . we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.