Alan Ball Quotes & Sayings

“I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.”

“We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.”

“Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.”

“Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.”

“In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.”

“There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.”

“I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.”

“I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.”

“I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.”

“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?”