Quotes About Ambiguity

I could tell that Peter, in the irritating way of very young men, had been mysterious about the whole episode.

Since he'd had no clue about Chris Stybr (sometimes he had a genuine impression about the seeker, but this Chris could be a man or a woman or a hermaphrodite for all Manfred knew)

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

It's mentally hard. There are times when you're set back again, and you don't know what to do.

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

Will I go back to Milan one day? I don't know what the future will be.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

when you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits.

We want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too. We want a new novel to be not quite like anything we've read before. At the same time, wee look for it to be sufficiently like other things we've read so that we can use those to make sense of it.

Uncertainty's tomorrow's only truth.

The gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day's close, though the degree of their shade may be the same. In the twilight of the morning, light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse.

the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.