David Levithan Quotes

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Life is extremely complicated.

I don't know how to play easy.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Life is not mean to be easy.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Making things easy is hard.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

Simplicity is really hard.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.