Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.
There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.
I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Vague goals produce vague results
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.
What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.
People are afraid of detail and complexity.
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
