Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

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.