Quotes About Complexity

We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us with truth.

Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished.

Strindberg came to the rescue. Why, he had asked her, did every woman he ever met have to bring her bloody mother into the bed, every bloody woman, including his own wife, Siri. "You have a wife," she had said.

Life is complicated. You don't only have two simple choices: drunk or teetotaler; saint or sinner. It's more complicated than that.

Instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long

In reality, Rome had grown too big for lots of people to handle its vast affairs any longer by committee.  

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is—but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I tend to think life is pastiche: I'm not sure what it's a pastiche of - we haven't found out yet.

Q: What are your sexual preferences? A: Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. Q: Why not? A: I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something. I know people who lead really outrageous lives. I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't. A lot of people would say that I wasn't because I never do anything about it. What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else.

Novelists liked to imagine the interconnectedness of things—as though all the people in the big city were part of some great organism, their lives intertwined. He

Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ¿sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples.

He couldn't help wondering whether love could really consist of an unpleasant combination of obsession, self-pity, rivalry, lust and day-dreaming. These characteristics didn't seem to distinguish it from the rest of life, except by their intensity.

If they made a film of my inner life, it would be more than the public could take. Mothers would scream, Bring back The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so we can have some decent family entertainment!

Most people either felt regret at staying with someone for too long, or regret at losing them too easily. I manage to feel both ways at the same time about the same object.

It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

The geometry! I think I can see it! Each quarter section is homeomorphic to a triangle!

Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.