Quotes About Intricacy

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

ties knotted to a wasp's waist at his neck.

The dancers were in a crowd, so you did not see the intricate play of the feet. All you saw was the heads and shoulders going up and down, up and down.

DNA wasn't a simple recipe book that could be readily understood.

Complexity is seen as a virtue, a selling-point.

Moby-Dick is a long, grueling, convoluted graft. And yet, as soon as I completed it, once I could hold it at arm's length and admire its intricacy and design, I knew Moby-Dick was obviously, uncannily, a masterwork. It wormed into my subconsious; I dreamed about it for nights afterwards. Whereas when I finished The Da Vinci Code, which had taken little less than twelve hours from cover to cover, I chicked it aside and thought: wow - I really ought to read something good.

And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me

Ramón's wife's brother's cousin's sister

Symbolism is such a major thing in 'The Wheel of Time'. One of the things that Robert Jordan was renowned for was his attention to details.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

For hours and days he sought out ways to make unintelligible the obvious, and to find for things easily understood an inexplicable basis. --Thoughts on Cezanne

self-referential semantic labyrinth.

Because that's what we're dealing with here. Layers upon layers upon layers, like the layers of an onion, in the Deep Web itself, and inside all of its separate sites.

My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

Private. Not to be opened, was written in capital letters on the cover. He raised his eyebrows. It was the sort of thing one wrote in one's Latin Grammar while one was still at one's preparatory school. Black is the raven, black is the rook, But blacker the thief who steals this book! It was curiously childish, he thought, and he smiled to himself. He opened the book. What he saw made him wince as though he had been struck.