Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.