For me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALLFor me, the thing that I love is that it’s all about the present moment.
ALAN BALLIt’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
ALAN BALLI try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.
ALAN BALLI certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg.
ALAN BALLBeauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
ALAN BALLOnce Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
ALAN BALLWe live in a time where there’s an alienation factor. There’s a certain disconnection.
ALAN BALLLife is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
ALAN BALLWe don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALLI’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALLNot everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALLThat somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALLThat’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
ALAN BALLSometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.
ALAN BALLI’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
ALAN BALLI would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
ALAN BALL