Alan Ball Quotes

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

People tend to simplify things.

The more one-dimensional an explanation of something complex and far reaching, the greater the grounds for skepticism.

Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.