There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

- Beck

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

- Damon Lindelof

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

- Douglas Horton

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

- Demetri Martin

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

- Deepak Chopra

It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.

- Carole Bouquet

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

- Charlotte Dujardin

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

- Carol Burnett

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

- Brian Greene

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

- Brandi Carlile

I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

- Alain Ducasse

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

- Anthony Storr

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

- Aaron Stanford

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

- Adrian Belew

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

- Adam Baldwin

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

- Abigail Washburn

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

- Ashley Greene

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

- A. S. Byatt

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

- A. S. Byatt

I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.

- Andy Cohen