David Carson Quotes

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?