Quotes About Complexity

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions?

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.