“..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.”
“we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.”
“The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.”
“[People] do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.”
“I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.”
“I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.”