Quotes About Enigma

the far side of the room, the anagram

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it

Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.

She is the darkness.

the one true secret of the universe: there is always a darker shadow lurking beyond the one whose face you can see.

What's a starbuck?

Noah stepped forward for a closer look. "If it's a girl," he said finally, "then what's that?" And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.

stranger stares back at me.

What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

So who are you?" Jiming asked. "Other than a boy who brings wine to toads at night.

You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness

The ambiguity was that attraction.

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

I've sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the behavior of what's around them—light and matter being distorted by immense forces within the collapsing star. Have I seen and yet not seen certain events that hint at deep

The Secret History.

was Ted. He

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. —ANAÏS NIN

her dark silhouette a part of the night itself.

through his thick, black hair.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.