Desire is arcane

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

— Isaac Asimov

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law…

— Shereen El Feki

“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind…

— Erik Pevernagie

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of…

— Sara Sheridan

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get…

— Uma Thurman

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

I myself delve into very arcane things.

— Christopher Guest

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.”

— Victor LaValle

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”

— Susanna Clarke

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's…

— Robert Genn