Joss Whedon Quotes

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

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

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

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

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

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

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

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.