Shelley Jackson’s ‘Half Life’ is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman. – Stacey D’Erasmo
I can’t tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It’s a mystery, but it does happen. – Sam Donaldson
Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. – Vincent D’Onofrio
I don’t think the problem is that people don’t read enough mystery books, but that people don’t read. – Thomas Perry
Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away. – Stephen Hopkins
Junk DNA – or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA – remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life. – Sam Kean
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild. – Wilkie Collins
Writing a new play shouldn’t be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. – Tom Stoppard
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. – Stephen Hawking
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. – Thomas Ken
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse. – Simon McBurney
I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it’s no mystery to me. I just didn’t have the skin for it. – Sarah Paulson
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. – Tana French
When you’ve done the technical part, you’re then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You’re then into the mystery of the thing you’re doing. – William Shatner
I guess I’ve always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them. – Sasha Grey
I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist. – Stephen Pagliuca
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. – Susan Sontag
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn’t ‘How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?’ but ‘Why did the third bullet explode?’ – Stephen Hunter
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. – Sue Grafton
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! – Tryon Edwards
A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it’s also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it’s a little bit underappreciated. – Sean M. Carroll
The ‘Scream’ series is unique in that it’s an ongoing murder mystery, even though it’s a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone. – Wes Craven
I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension. – Vincent Bugliosi