“Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.”
“You are an enigma wrapped in a mystery," he teased me once. "And you're failing French.”
“I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.”
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
“What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”