John Diamond Quotes

The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Be obscure clearly.

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Simplicity is a most complex form

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.