To take the world as one finds it
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.