All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Edward Norton

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
Gene Wolfe

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
John Le Carre

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
Vernon A. Walters

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Kenzaburo Oe

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.
John M. Ford

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
Don McLean

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
Roger von Oech

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Stephen Rea

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Scott Turow

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
David Kay

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Aldrich Ames

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig