Quotes About Ambiguity

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

Whether it was a shoe store or working the front desk of a hotel, I was always interacting with people. I'd get that look because I'm half-white and half-Filipino. They could tell I was something, but they really couldn't tell what I was.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it's too complicated, and people don't know how to interpret it.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

It's funny, when you speak with 'New York' you never know which way they are going to go. They sorta walk that middle road where you don't know if your interview is going to go good or bad.

You'll see me all right—but not very much of me," Liv muttered, watching him go. What was it about him that made her feel so strange? She ought to be outraged

Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said.

And besides, when a story ended, audiences wanted a fixed place—a forever—seduced and abandoned or happily ever after, not off into the night juggling oranges

And as my old friend Irene Kamp used to quote some French guy who said, 'Everything will work out, but badly.

Vagina Warriors are done being victims. They know no one is coming to rescue them. They would not want to be rescued. They have experienced their rage, depression, desire for revenge, and they have transformed them through grieving and service. They have confronted the depth of their darkness. They live in their bodies. They are community makers. They bring everyone in. They have a keen ability to live with ambiguity. They can hold two opposite thoughts at the same time.

It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer.

Unlike her judges, she suggested that words do not have set meanings, that there is a gap between speaker and listener, and that human understanding always "falls short of absolute truth.

You hate translation??? What of it?? Expect to be carried up to Mt. Helicon in an easy chair?

nebulous misgivings

prevaricating

A signal does not necessarily mean that you want to be located or described. It can mean that you want to be known as Unlocatable and Hidden.