Quotes About Complexity

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren't prepared to understand that it's a complex piece of machinery.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.