“Age is not a mystery to me.”

“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”

“If these artist were trying to convince me that the pursuit of love in the postdigital age was more exciting, more mysterious, more…. well, everything love should be, they’d failed.”

“Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business...”

“Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.”

“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”