William Landay Quotes

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

We live in a bewildering world.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

It's an odd world.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.