When I speak of 'cycles ' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity if not in the resolving of problems than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess do penance and then after some kind of decent interval ask for forgiveness.