Gregory Maguire Quotes

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

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.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

I only work with people that are mysteries.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things.

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

The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

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.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

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

The world is not always ours to understand.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.