Quotes about Complexity

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128)

When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

Life wasn't all neat and tidy. Along with joy and happiness, there were bitter disappointments and heart-rending loose ends.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.