I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.