Quotes About Ambiguity

I can understand, but

Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.

They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.

I don't know

Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.

I dunno, maybe you're Goat.

The Chinese call it woo The French les brumes The British Fog L A Smog Heaven Cellar Door

I wanted to know what 'IT' meant. 'Ah well' - Dean laughed - 'now you're asking me impon-de-rables - ahem!

He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the right reclamation projects, that we're not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we're going. It's this Tower of Babel type scenario.

I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.