Quotes About Ambiguity

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

A lot of people think I'm going to be like someone who's stepped out of one of his own cartoons. And maybe I am. But I sure have a hard time analyzing it.

to square all these circles?

Yes, Germany is dark, and Berlin is darker. But it is not so clear in Berlin what part of the dark is now faux dark and what part of the dark is real.

Tanizaki's subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it

And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.