Mark Twain Quotes

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

There are many things that I don't understand.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Be obscure clearly.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

He who wars, walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes cannot always discern the right path.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.