To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.
My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.
If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.
