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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.