God is the mysterium tremendum that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Little girls think it’s necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it’s a shame…I’m all about mystery.

The name of this book is mysterious.

I didn’t know that once you’ve proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you’ll never be free again.

Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic...

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

What the fuck are cavemen doing here?

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than...

I barely recognize him with his clothes on.

My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense...

C’est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those...

Why didn’t they ask the Evans?

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean...

Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin…The older instruments bear the...

Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from New Orleans’s past.

Alma idly wondered if he’d blow his nose, too.He did. Twice. He made it honk, the sound reminding Alma of Harpo squeezing his bulb horn.Isabel darted a look at Alma, giving her the don’t-you-dare-giggle squint.Alma...

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn’t want us to find out?

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.””A note.” Now Renquist’s eyebrows lifted. “Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn’t it?

Is that a hairy snake around her neck? Looks like something a murderess would wear. It’s as if she’s broadcasting, Come here and cuddle with my cute, furry boa constrictor. Let me drape it around...

What’s the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where’s the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

There’s a large strain of irony in our human affairs… Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the...

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.

Chance is life’s only certainty.

Irma was aware, for a little while, of a rather curious sound coming up from the plain. Like the beating of far-off drums.

Jensen looked concerned.”I’m reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?” He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering ‘I told you so’ look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli’s...

He walked away. It was a shame really, but what could I do? He was the law; I broke the law, two things one should never combine.From WIP The Trinity Saints

If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for.” Banks tells me. “But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary...

That evening we sat in the courtyard of the hotel once more, watching the sun sink below the western isles. I told Alexi what had happened that day. I fancied I could glimpse the grey...

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don’t know how he does it, but I’m glad he does it.

…I’ve discovered why you fascinate – you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship…

Nothing but trees.

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If...

You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

I’d love to try to tame you… And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

Grandpa Sereno: “There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger and we must start to put all our efforts into fighting THAT instead...

Days, weeks, months, years,” said the boy. “Minutes and hours and seconds. I don’t know about any of those things.

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.— RJPeters

Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone...

give a smile, get a smile, keep a smile