Quotes About Complexity

The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

The answer to that is complicated." "Give me the short version." "The short version is 'Yes, but.' The slightly longer version is 'No, and.' Which version would you like?

Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.

The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness.

Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn't the same thing as easy.

the assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

Of all the complexities of the ten thousand things, the self-consciousness of man is ten thousand times the most complex.

I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

He said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many.

For the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.

Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches, by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men, and he would have meant the same thing. Quoted by Richard Wagamese in Ragged Company

Do you think I'm a child? she asked. Not any more, said Adam, I'm beginning to think you're a twisted human--or no human at all.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself was a pitted battlefield of his own forces.

I think I love you. But I'm not good. Because you're not good.

Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.