Quotes About Complexity

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.

Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.

What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument.

Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.

When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.