Jeff Lindsay Quotes

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.” It didn’t.

What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Nobody knows anything.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.