147 Quotes by Alan Ball

It’s a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you’re going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn’t what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it’s coming from.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I’m a Buddhist.

I need to feel like the work I’m doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It’s a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don’t want to die. It’s like, ‘Well, too bad, we do.’

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It’s hard to take, but it’s the truth.