Complicated People Quotes

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I also had to figure out how much of the truth do I tell, how do I make the truth as balanced as I possibly can? How do I make these people as complicated and as human and as unique and as multifaceted as I possibly can? For me, that was the way I attempted to counteract some of that criticism.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.