Quotes about Ambiguity

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

You cannot predict the future.