I am who I am and always shall be.

It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn’t show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the...

I, myself, love complications and mystery which I didn’t notice that I had become one.

A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon.

Marcie was found in her apartment late last night uh… no longer alive.” My bedside manner has never been my strong suit.Dr. Taggart looked distressed and began to ramble incoherently for a minute. I let...

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

MMMMugger, you nitwit.” He made m-m-m-m noises with his lips.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

I am.I’m here.I’m me.You are the mystery. 

Chase stooped to inspect it. Angelo handed him a latex glove, which took Chase three attempts to pull on before tearing it. He had never had a good relationship with latex. He tried two more,...

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

Sarucha (age 8): “Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!” she exclaimed.

spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

That’s what I love most about writers–they’re such lousy actors.

Adventure is my middle name.

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.

I win.

I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson,” said he. “When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I...

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.

They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,’ Porcelain remarked.’Ha!’ I said. ‘Shows what little you know! I hate them!”Hate them? I should have thought you’d love them.”Of course I love them,’ I said…. ‘That’s why...

All forests are one… They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn’t put a bullet in my skull before I gave...

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he’ll which way to fall.

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be...

Every great day has a story and a song!

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

…women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the...

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they’ve promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.I was never a Boy Scout but “Be...

At forty-one, he was still the quintessential bad boy—charming, at ease in his skin, and great-looking, with deep blue eyes, slicked-back brown hair, and the kind of full, sensuous mouth that bad boys seemed to...

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.

But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something...

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world’s flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm...

What a disgrace! They were afraid…ashamed…they chose to conceal it…they buried the roots of a Great Civilization…they lacked the courage to go further…and turned their backs on what science had to offer them…and tried to...

It is another unsolved mystery in a world full of unsolved mysteries.Now stand up and walk out the way you came, and the moment that fresh air caresses your face, you will realize that that...

Quoting geneticists, Guy Murcia says we’re all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is further removed than your fiftieth cousin. Murcia also describes...

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt’s head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have...