Erno Rubik Quotes

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

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

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

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

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

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

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

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.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

Every side of a coin has another side.