Quotes about Ambiguity

The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.

When is a gift not a gift?

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.