Quotes About Mystery

What shakes the eye but the invisible?

People should know more than what was or will be. People must know that which must never be." -- Theodore Sturgeon

So, while driving in the car with the person sitting right next to us, we think about other things. We aren't interested in him anymore. What arrogance! The person sitting there beside is really a mystery! We only have the impression that we know her, but we don't know anything yet.

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam... but they're always looking at something that's not measurable or you can't really see or control.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

I kiss, but I don't tell.

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

No one knows what goes on behind any front door.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

In some strange way, when we are about His business, He makes the eternity, about which we know so very little, work in our favor.