Quotes About Ambiguity

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.

Quootla had a suffix, - utl , that could be glued to the end of anything—nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, small rodents—and meant the word itself plus its opposite, simultaneously. It didn't always translate into Goreddi. Time/no-time almost made sense; blue/orange or fall/rise or dog/whatever-the-opposite-of-dog-is were perfectly intelligible in Quootla but boggling to nearly everyone else.

tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was OK to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.

she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.

I hate possibilities—God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

The young see things in black and white while the favorite adverb of the aged is "perhaps.

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

It's so much easier to live in a world where everything is black and white. I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never go back.

Embrace probability. Only mathematicians and fools have a tendency to embellish certainty.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

the light was black. It was not real light, not good light, not the light Lizzie knew, that you could read by or warm to, but a light that was made of darkness, a cancerous light, thick and smothering

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

I stepped out into the night air that nobody had yet found out how to option. But a lot of people were probably trying. They'd get around to it.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

The world is not what it seems—but it isn't anything else, either.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.