Quotes About Mystery

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.

Mobius is like a detective in the way that he works with Loki.

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back, the detective and the criminal.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

I love devils.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

We don't like our lives being monitored, so when someone dies alone, perhaps there are always answers that remain out of reach.

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

I often play the quote-unquote bad guy, and I don't know why that is but it's just something that I've always hopefully been able to tap into. Maybe I'm harboring some deep, dark secrets that even I don't know about.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

The tarot is sacred.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.