Quotes About Intricacy

The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

We are a complex species to observe.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

Everything from the brim of this hat to the hem of her dress was too complex for Daniel's eye to comprehend—he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible—but

more complicated, and that awaited further Intel.

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.

Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No

And yet some memories cannot be rooted out like weeds, no matter how much one wills to do it.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

THE MANDELBROT SET IS the most complex object in mathematics, its admirers like to say. An eternity could not be enough time to see it all, its disks studded with prickly thorns, its spirals and filaments curling outward and around, bearing bulbous molecules that hang, infinitely variegated, like grapes on God's personal vine.

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

But, for me, I'm such a complex person with so many different facets and so much depth that asking me the same question twice seems almost unfair to the reader. I'm going to die a mystery already, so you want to find out as much about me as you can while I'm still here.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)

Look at this tangle of thorns.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths.