Death is really the mystery of life, isn’t it?

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

There has always been the wind. Since our planet began to turn, there has been the wind. This ball of dirt and fire and water started to spin. The air stirred. And Earth’s time began....

Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice...

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

I slipped in and out of consciousness as time stretched and flowed around me. Dreams and reality blurred, but I liked the dreams better. Noah was in them.I dreamed of us, walking hand in hand...

I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.

That was in the old days. Why shouldn’t they change with the times and be modern, too?

Uncouth thoughts can come take possession of the sweetest mind. That happens to you, you got to keep yourself alone a long time to heal of it. Mostly so you don’t pass it on. Thoughts,...

They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.

I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.

Cattle… it called us cattle…We’re hamburger, you mean.

After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

For some stupid reason, I had this irrational need to prove to Cooper that I could inspect dead bodies over black coffee and maple bars just like him and the other guys on the police...

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Nunca podré expresar el impacto que experimenté al abrir la puerta: era arrancar tu propia tumba para desembocar en el misterio.

I think it’s better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Uh, what?

I’m sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. ‘The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life’ That sort of thing. It’s not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and...

If I was in deep shit with Lilian before, I was snorkeling at the waste treatment plant now.

The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the mystery. We retain the child in us...

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks,...

I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we’d use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged...

Don’t judge a book by its cover

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess’s glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti–no fancy modern clothes for him. That’s...

With women, there is no sexual mystery—a vagina is a vagina. But with men, a woman’s got to wonder, is his penis small, medium, or Orafoura?

Oh please tell me we’re not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever’.Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. ‘Fruitcake in this case. And what would you...

You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough...

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn’t want to ruin her for other men. – Dean

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

playdate” is never initiated by the players (i.e., children), but only by their mothers.In American-suburban social climbing through playdating, this is the chapter you’ve been awaiting.

This time Simone did not smile at all.”I cannot tell that to you, child. This is asecret I am not allowed to talk about. I only hope that you willknow how to follow the true...

Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah,the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?

The click of the seat belt securing into the buckle is the only sound to break the awkward silence. I feel his warm breath on my neck as he reaches and I take a deep...

We were on Barrow Street now.”Who is the man with the scar?” I said.She shot me a glance, and her face hardened. “You saw him?””How could I miss? He was the real center of attention....

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave… Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know...

I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.

When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: “Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written....