Winston Marshall Quotes

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

I'm full of contradictions.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

You are bound to pick up influences.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

Theories and grand ideas are important, but they seldom unfold as planned.

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like: chaotic and strange and disconnected.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I have figured out that you never completely figure it out.

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.