“I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the ...” — Greg Boyle Quote

“I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution.”

“Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed.”

“I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.”

“I'm not opposed to success.”

“Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.”

“People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.”

“Interpreting the fair play rules has its complexities.”

“The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.”

“I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.”

“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”

“I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.”

“All of the cultural nuances and the traumas and the complexities that come with being a third-culture kid, these are all nuances that the quote-unquote system of Hollywood is just starting to become privy to.”