James Spader Quotes

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The unknown is always interesting.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

It is good to love the unknown.

I love being in the world of the unknown.

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.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

I don't know what's on the other side.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.