On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
History shows you prospects by starlight, or at best by the waning moon.
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
Beginnings are always messy.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.
So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
I have to wait and see what happens. Because nobody's in charge.
I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
My life was a mystery even as I lived it.
I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.
When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
