All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I’m giddy with thinking where thinking...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

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....

Dare 2 Dream

In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother’s old blue Camaro car and the smell of...

Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

What you are is a freaking estrogen magnet.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that’s where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that’s the point, isn’t it? You never know...

It’s not a mystery why we had a season like that in Tampa. An NFL team loses because of a talent problem.

Like an abandoned dog who cannot finda smell or a track and roamsalong the roads, with no road, likethe child who in a night of the fairgets lost among the crowd,and the air is dusty,...

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw...

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

What’s the big mystery? It’s my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

When you give in to bullies, you don’t just empower them, you encourage whatever methods they employ to achieve their ends; usually terror and violence. Meaning it’s the innocent who pay; mourners at a funeral...

There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.” Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

If you focus your eyes towards the horizon, everything and everyone walking in front of you becomes a blurry mass. That’s what everyone else became. All of their dark wool suits began to mesh into...

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of...

Ah ha!” the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. “The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. “Adams!” “That you?” “I told you, I don’t know-” The cop pointed straight at him. “Jeffrey Adams! Front...

The best part about a murder mystery dinner, of course, is the dinner. I make a killer Bubble and squeak, if you know what I mean. The mystery, of course, is what’s in the dinner.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.

Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children...

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of...

Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. “Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler” Goodreads blog

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in...

So I’m up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

I needed a new mystery.

That’s it, Uncle Huey!” Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. “I quit!” If only her voice didn’t sound so young.

We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek...

But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is the plain language of the story,) cannot be told by a parent to...

This is not a mystery anymore. We know what needs to be done, … The Great Lakes has gotten nine studies in four years from this administration, and Iraq has gotten $4.5 billion. Give Iraq...

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden”.

I am incognito; running away from scenes of the tested truths that I have so meticulously exacted before I am found guilty of the very things I have written.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.