Quotes About Ambiguity

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Seeing the fight game and seeing the way things have worked out, a guy could be on a seven-fight, monstrous win streak and not get a title shot. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Being culturally ambiguous and having to deal with bullying made me strong and independent.

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

You can't bank on the outcome.