The color of truth is gray.
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Everything in life is gray, you know.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
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.
'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.
There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
