Quotes About Ambiguity

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

Be obscure clearly.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I like what's obscure.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

On one occasion I saw a banner where my name read 'Sarvasri Bharat Balachandra Menon.' I was amused and decided to find out the reason for this coinage. One of the organizers confessed rather sheepishly that they were sure about me getting the Bharat award but were doubtful if I was a Padma Shri awardee.

Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them HAS to be right.

But that's just as bad," protested Milo. "You mean just as good," corrected the Humbug. "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things." "I don't know which side of anything to look at," protested Milo. "Everything is so confusing and all your words only make things worse.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.

We are witnessing now, at the end of the century, the resurrection of ethnic and psychic passions, beliefs, ideas, and realities that seemed to have been long buried. The return of religious passion and nationalist fervor hides an ambiguous meaning: Is it the return of ghosts and demons that reason had exorcised, or is it the revelation of profound truths and realities that had been ignored by our proud intellectual constructs?

América Latina: ruínas, natureza e umas figuras imprecisas - os criados e o gerente do hotel.

Sammy's so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt. -Steel Magnolias

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

La razón fundamental de mi soledad es que ni siquiera yo sé de qué historia formo parte.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

As Ka would later write, it may have been now, as they were holding each other and weeping, that Ipek discovered something for the first time: To live in indecision, to waver between defeat and a new life, offered as much pleasure as pain.