We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works,” he told Carter shortly after they met, “and that’s the clockworks, that’s what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down....

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

He was a fixture of the New Paltz community, an inexplicable light switch in the new apartment that definitely turns something on but you can’t quite say what. You flick it whenever you get home...

My power is immeasurable; My Truth is inexplicable, unfathomable. I am announcing this about Me, for, the need has arisen. But, what I am doing now is only a gift of a visiting card.

Japan’s inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.