Quotes About Complexity

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

By my very nature, I would never achieve a great level of consistency. That's my appeal and my downfall rolled into one.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

I am a living contradiction.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I'm a walking contradiction.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

We all live with contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

Contradictions are fun.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.