In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.