Quotes About Ambiguity

I'm sorry.' Althoug I wasn't sure what i was sorry for-showing emotion, maybe

It was like they were strangers. Maybe they were, again.

There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

can't decide if it's pretty or creepy, which, come to think of it, is about the same way I feel about you.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.