“Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.”

“Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.”

“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”

“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”

“If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.”

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”