Erica Jong Quotes

This life is messy.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Reality itself is too twisted.