Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

Football is simple but very complicated.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

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.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

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.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Life is extremely complicated.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Be obscure clearly.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.