Quotes About Complexity

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Isn't the human body a miracle

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

The fact is no one has understood me in entirety till now!

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

It's never simple." Avery slid an arm around Hope's waist. "It shouldn't be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

He didn't know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn't know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black," from "Guardian," 1987

The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

a point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

To say we know a person is to write that person off.

You cannot cut an apple with an apple. I have interrupted that living to write: the story of a faux-prodigy, which is the real story of Fabienne and Agnes, as real as on that day when we were in th graveyard, wanting, and unable, to kill each other; wanting, and unable, to save each other.