"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)

"Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Buttercup is marry' Humperdinck in a little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape... after I kill Count Rugen."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

"I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

"Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you !"
— Chris Geiger