There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

- David Eagleman

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

- Iris Murdoch

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

- Heather O'Rourke

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

- Fred Saberhagen

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

- Erez Lieberman Aiden

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

- Eugene H. Peterson

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

- Edith Wharton

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

- David Lean

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

- Donna Leon

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

- Alan Furst

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

- David Harsanyi

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

- David Harsanyi

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

- Cormac McCarthy

Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.

- Cary Fukunaga

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

- Charles Dickens

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

- Charles de Lint

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

- Bram Stoker

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

- Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

- Alan Furst