Quotes About Complexity

Con todo, ni siquiera yo puedo crear un personaje imaginado que resulte tan unidimensional como el lector corriente

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

These books are a great deal harder to read than they were to write.

We have been obtuse toward nationalism and identity issues in the Middle East and have lumped it all into the basket of "Islam.

ACTUALLY, in many senses there is no "Muslim world" at all, but rather many Muslim worlds, or many Muslim countries and different kinds of Muslims.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.' In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.

how twisted we humans are, and yet they say a god made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any god wo is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as the air.

Cuando somos jóvenes somos una jungla de complicaciones. Nos simplificamos a medida que envejecemos.

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food.

How twisted we humans are, and yet they say a God made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any God who is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as air.

One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?

I want ordinary corrupt human love

what experience had taught him- that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

I didn't lover her, and she certainly didn't love me, but perhaps in a way we could have made a life together.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God—a being capable of understanding.