Quotes About Complexity

Who would marry me anyway? I'm a handful.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

There are a lot of things that we want to show people, and if you try to show everything about us in a single album, it's a burden for us - and it's a lot for people to handle and accept.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

What is special about 'Hannah' is she's complex. She takes risks and she's smart, and she has a lot of love for people.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

The characters don't all have to be likable, and they don't all have to be hateable. As long as it's interesting and you connect to them and they resonate with you and you want to find out what happens and it feels authentic, then we have something.

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I have a real hard time classifying anything as my biggest moment, my favorite color or whatever.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but it's part of Harry Bosch.

I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.