The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.