It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

- Arthur Phillips

He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the b…

- Arthur Phillips

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to…

- Arthur Phillips

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

- Arthur Phillips

The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but…

- Arthur Phillips

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

- Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

- Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

- Arthur Phillips

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

- Arthur Phillips