The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah there was no cake. Today there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in and then immediately clouds.

We were promised a simpler life and technology has only complicated our lives.

Well you got to remember bin Laden killed 3 000 Americans and in some ways he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Everything's complicated even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work their love for the journey we were sharing.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.