“Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you come to doing them.”

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

“"So in everything, do to others what you would have them to do to you, for this sums up the war and the prophets." That is the golden rule. Do unto others, what you would have them do to you. That is the golden rule, and it is not very complicated.”

“Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You’re the complication I want more than anything else. You’re my favorite complication.”

“A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.”

“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

“There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.”

“The surrealists still see things as everyone sees them, they complicate them in a different way but the vision is that of everyone else, in short the complication is the complication of the twentieth century but the vision is that of the nineteenth century. Picasso only sees something else, another reality. Complications are always easy but another vision than that of all the world is very rare.”

“But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”