Nicole Krauss Quotes

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Life is full of contrasts.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.