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If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.