If you shut up the truth and bury it in the ground, it will grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.
Time discovers truth.
It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.
I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
When writing 'Behind the Mask,' I opened up on every level. Hopefully, even the more knowledgeable fans, who really know me, will be surprised when they read it.
There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.
I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.
Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.
Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them
