Quotes About Complexity

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

Here's the problem with talking about who I voted for. If I say I voted for Romney, then everybody's like, 'Of course.' If I say I voted for Obama, everybody's like, 'Of course.' And then I'm no longer the guy you can't figure out.

I just don't feel respected in the political process as a large donor or as a citizen voter. I just feel patronized. Everything I get is like, 'Hey, you couldn't possibly - it's too complex and sophisticated what really goes on,' and, 'Hey, leave it to us, and we will go and represent you and fight the good fight, and just give us money.'

As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they're really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

The Senate is an unknowing world.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

I don't mind being called sexy, but I am much more than just that.

There are lot of shades about me that people don't know. There are many things people don't know. I don't know if people will like me or not.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who I am.

I'm more than just a shooter.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.