Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.
Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.