Quotes About Complexity

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give.

The terrible, exasperating thing about humans is how goodness and gentleness, and utter depravity and disregard for human life, can be contained within the same person, and in terrifyingly close proximity.

Bureaucracy is the only form of human organization that can manage to pass a hot potato through a small crack.

Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need it Nicole Baker: Don't call me partner. Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love it Nicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.

I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.

The Under-secretary of Understanding.

The difficulty of modern poetry does not stem from its complexity, but rather from the fact that, like mysticism or love, it demands total surrender—and an equally total vigilance.

The real explanations are usually the simplest, and often the saddest.

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a não passar de uma proliferação de lugares comuns. O espírito de época, se pudermos chamar assim, é uma montagem sem pé nem cabeça de lugares-comuns.

sometime hate is just confused love!

HE ALWAYS KNEW THE LAYERED GRIEF OF THE WORDL AS ITS PLEASURES.

Ä°nsan hepsini ayn? anda düÅŸünemiyor ama görebiliyordu. Akl?mdaki kelimelerin, akl?mdaki hayallere yetiÅŸememesi gibi bir ÅŸeydi bu. Kelimeler duygular?ma yetiÅŸemiyor ve yetersiz kal?yorlard?.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

La sabiduría de una ciudad no hay que medirla por los sabios que acoge, ni por sus bibliotecas, ni por sus ilustradores, calígrafos y medersas, sino por el número de crímenes tortuosos cometidos en sus calles oscuras a lo largo de miles de años.

in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes

Ä°nsan ÅŸehirde kalabal?k içinde yaln?z olabilirdi ve ÅŸehri ÅŸehir yapan ÅŸey de zaten kalabal?k içinde insan?n kafas?ndaki tuhafl??? saklayabilme imkan?yd?.

what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

How difficult it is being human, even worse is living a human's life.