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“All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.”
Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
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“That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.”
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“The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.”
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“Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.”
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“Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.”
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“The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.”
Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
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“If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.”
Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.378, Penguin UK
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“You can never spend enough time with children.”
