“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the pe...” — Joyce Carol Oates Quote

“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.”

“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”

“I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.”

“If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.”

“In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.”

“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”