“My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.”
“You're an addiction...my obsession...”
“First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.”
“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence.”
“Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.”
“I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...”