Cameron Dokey Quotes

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.

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

Darkness is full of possibility.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

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

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

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

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

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

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

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

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

The unknown is always interesting.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.